Quantitative Analyst, Entry Lvl, Commodities, Market Maker, 50k recruitment
Client: Market Maker/brokerage who specialises in trading commodities. Subsets include: Base and Precious Metals, Agriculture, Energy, Freight. They are growing and expanding now as well as into the majority of 2012 especially in the Quantitative domain. They were crowned Broker of the Year for each consecutive year since 2005 and continue to go from strength to strength.
Vacancy: Quantitative Analyst
Your job will be to analyse vast amounts of internal trading and financial data to uncover trading patterns and to discover the associated risks in the professional trader business. The aim of this is to improve the business understanding of their clients trading behaviour. As such, they are looking for either a fresh out of University individual with a PhD/MSc in Statistics/Econometrics/Economics with some experience with data analysis, SAP and/or SPSS.
This is a business facing role. You will be responsible for:
-Providing analytical support to the growth initiatives (which may be broadening their product offerings as well as buying new businesses)
-Analysing internal data and identifying improvement potential to the existing business
Post Project, you will have a range of opportunities as to how you would like to advance your career within this growing firm. Continuing such projects is one route, or moving into a quant strategist position or even quant trading is also possible.
If you are interested then please get in touch with your latest CV attached. Thank you. 